The role of networks in achieving academic library goals

Larsen, Ronald L.

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Title

The role of networks in achieving academic library goals

Author(s)

Larsen, Ronald L.

Issue Date

1994

Keyword(s)

• Academic libraries
• Networked information

Abstract

In this paper, I will look more closely at computer networks and, in particular, at how networks are affecting academic libraries' ability to meet their goals. I will consider a typical set of academic library goals, and then explore the interactions between network technology and meeting goals such as these, and the implications that follow. The apparently inevitable conclusion is that the tradition of sharing that already exists among libraries will become much more fundamental to the success of libraries. Indeed, even the notion of a library as a stand-alone physical entity may be in question as libraries become inextricably linked with each other in the pursuit of their goals. The virtual library concept evolves from this line of thought.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Emerging communities : integrating networked information into library services [papers presented the 1993 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 4-6, 1993]

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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